The Uyo Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has secured the conviction and sentence of the proprietor of  Uyo Cybercrime Training Centre,  Ikemesit Edet (a.k.a Hustle Kingdom HK).
He was jailed after pleading guilty to two-count charges bordering on impersonation, love scam, hacking/editing of social media accounts and private criminal tutoring, upon his arraignment by the Uyo Zonal Command of the EFCC.
Edet was charged to court for recruiting ten young Nigerians between ages 16 and 25 and taught them cybercrime techniques of perpetrating cyber crimes such as hacking, impersonation, and obtaining money by false pretence (Advance Fee Fraud) and thereby committed an offence contrary to section 3 of the Advance Fee Fraud and Other Fraud Related Offences Act 2006 and punishable under Section 3 of the same Act.
He was also charged for taking possession of Fifteen Million Naira, a proceed of an unlawful act contrary to Section 18(2)\d) of the Money laundering (Prohibition) Act 2022 and punishable under Section 18(3) of the same Act.
Edet pleaded guilty to both charges preferred against him by the Commission, prompting  prosecution counsel, Joshua Abolarin to pray the court to convict and sentence him accordingly. 
He also prayed that the court ordered the forfeiture of all exhibits recovered from him at the point of arrest.  
However,  defence counsel Francis Ezike prayed the court to be lenient in sentencing the defendant.
After listening to both counsels, Justice Ojukwu convicted Edet and sentenced him to five years jail term on each count, with an option of fine of  N2,000,000 (Two Million Naira) on each count.
The court also ordered that all recovered exhibits from the convict be forfeited to the Federal Government of Nigeria. 
The exhibits include: 13 laptops, a gold- coloured Toyota Corolla, a Lexus Jeep  RX 300 and about 3,080.25 square metres of land located at Ibiaku Obio Ndobo Village, Uruan Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State.
Edet’s journey to the Correctional Centre commenced on January 22, 2024, when investigators from the EFCC’s office in Uyo acted on intelligence and arrested 10 suspects at his Cybercrimes Training Centre at  D-Line Ewet Housing Estate, Uyo. All the suspects have been charged to court and convicted.
In a related development, the same court convicted and sentenced one Michael Melvin Onyekachi (alias ‘Raisa Pedroso’) for being in possession of fraudulent documents. He pleaded ‘guilty’ to the one- count charge preferred against him, and was immediately convicted and sentenced to  six months imprisonment with an option of fine of  N50, 000.00( Fifty Thousand Naira).
He bagged his imprisonment when he was arrested for internet-related fraud.  He was charged to court and convicted.

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